E. V. Lucas (1868–1938)
Author of What a Life!
About the Author
Image credit: E. V. Lucas, c.1905.
Works by E. V. Lucas
Into the Lagoon 8 copies
Three hundred games and pastimes: Or, What shall we do now? : a book of suggestions for children's games and… (1903) 7 copies
Post-bag diversions 6 copies
Rembrandt 6 copies
Her Infinite Variety 5 copies
Chardin And Vigee-Lebrun (With a Frontispiece in colour and twelve other illustrations., Little Books on Great Masters) (1900) 5 copies
The old contemporaries 4 copies
The joy of life : an anthology of lyrics drawn chiefly from the works of living poets (1927) — Composer — 3 copies
Character and Comedy 2 copies
Advisory Ben 2 copies
Van Dyck 2 copies
Rose and rose 2 copies
At the Shrine of St. Charles : Stray papers on Lamb brought together for the Centenary of his Death in 1834 (1934) 2 copies
The British School: An Anecdotal Guide to the British Painters and Paintings in the National Gallery (2016) 1 copy
How To Build Your Own Doll's House, Using Paper and Cardboard. Step-By-Step Instructions on Constructing a Doll's… (2017) 1 copy
Genevra's money 1 copy
The visit to London 1 copy
Giving and Receiving 1 copy
Herbert Haseltine Exhibition of Sculpture Thursday July 10th to Saturday August 9th 1930 (1930) 1 copy
Charles Lamb 1 copy
E. V. Lucas's London 1 copy
Chardin and Vigee-Lebrun 1 copy
The Gentlest Art 1 copy
A wanderer in Rome 1 copy
The Cat's Cleanliness 1 copy
...And Such Small Deer. 1 copy
Runaways and castaways 1 copy
A Rover I Would Be; 1 copy
Another Book of Verses for Children — Editor — 1 copy
Arlington Court Devonshire 1 copy
Wanderings and diversions 1 copy
The Debt 1 copy
Frans Hals 1 copy
As the bee sucks 1 copy
Mr. Punch's County Songs 1 copy
Velasquez 1 copy
More Verses for Children 1 copy
A group of Londoners 1 copy
West Sussex 1 copy
Associated Works
The Roads from Bethlehem: Christmas Literature from Writers Ancient and Modern (1993) — Contributor — 29 copies
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 6: Letters 1821-1842 (2011) — Editor, some editions — 5 copies
The Letters of Charles & Mary Lamb; the First Complete Edition in Three Volumes (1935) — Editor, some editions — 2 copies
Exhibition of illustrated books for children (Historical section) : catalogue (1932) — Introduction — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Lucas, E. V.
- Legal name
- Lucas, Edward Verrall
- Other names
- Swedin, Hun
Svedend, Hun - Birthdate
- 1868-06-11
- Date of death
- 1938-06-26
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Country (for map)
- England, UK
- Birthplace
- Eltham, Kent, England, UK
- Place of death
- Marylebone, London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Eltham, Kent, England, UK
- Education
- Friends School, Saffron Walden
- Occupations
- essayist
travel writer
columnist
humorist
playwright
biographer (show all 7)
publisher - Organizations
- Allahakbarries (Cricket team)
Methuen & Co.
Punch
Royal commission on the Historical Monuments of England
Athenaeum Club, London, England, UK - Awards and honors
- Companion of Honour
Members
Discussions
Into the Lagoon by E V Lucas – OLD SCHOOL PRESS 2021 in Fine Press Forum (December 2021)
Reviews
Swollen-headed William : painful stories and funny… by E. V. Lucas
Rather feeble parodies of moralising children’s rhymes, produced as propaganda at a point when the British expected to give Germany a bloody nose by Christmas. In retrospect rather distasteful. Some of the references would be lost on a child but the humour is hardly sophisticated enough to amuse an adult.
$8. Numerous illustrations of historical art. beautiful book. 1924
"My wife, in a nickel-plated Russian blouse, trimmed with celluloid pompons, aluminium pantaloons, and a pair of Norwegian Skis, looked magnificent."
That was stupid.. like Spaceballs levels of dumb... it was kinda awesome :) . So a parody of War of the Worlds that came out only weeks/months after the original book.
"My terror had fallen from me like a bath towel."
Highly recommend reading this as close to War of the Worlds as possible. Even so 100 year old comedy isn't always easy to parse.
There's some odd word choices too, it spends a lot of time describing streetnames and stuff which i think are digs at the original.
It breaks the forth wall and does allsorts of absurd parody elements. Its pretty short, certainly worth a look for fans of War of the Worlds.
"I stood there ecstatic, unprogressive, immoderate; while swiftly and surely ungovernable affection for all Wenuses gripped me."
Edit: Made available by the Merril Collection.… (more)
That was stupid.. like Spaceballs levels of dumb... it was kinda awesome :) . So a parody of War of the Worlds that came out only weeks/months after the original book.
"My terror had fallen from me like a bath towel."
Highly recommend reading this as close to War of the Worlds as possible. Even so 100 year old comedy isn't always easy to parse.
There's some odd word choices too, it spends a lot of time describing streetnames and stuff which i think are digs at the original.
It breaks the forth wall and does allsorts of absurd parody elements. Its pretty short, certainly worth a look for fans of War of the Worlds.
"I stood there ecstatic, unprogressive, immoderate; while swiftly and surely ungovernable affection for all Wenuses gripped me."
Edit: Made available by the Merril Collection.… (more)
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- Rating
- 4.1
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- ISBNs
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